CookShelfFamed baker Dorie Greenspan, author of the wonderful book Baking: From My Home to Yours and the blog In the Kitchen and on the Road with Dorie (recipes indexed on EYB), had a pop-up cookie store in NYC for a while. It…
Food & Wine asked 5 noted chefs with about-to-be published cookbooks about each others' cookbooks (for the most part) and why they regard them as both important and worthwhile. Specifically: Bruce Aidell talks about…
Well we've tried to stay above the political fray, but this story by Marian Burros Food Fight: Current And Former White House Chefs Dish On Their Presidential Service, was just too good to pass up. Burros writes about a…
Our friends in Australia have once again shown culinary innovation with this recipe for 2-ingredient pizza dough, which the kidspot kitchen site describes as: "This fast and easy pizza dough is perfect for when you…
Sometimes nostalgia for home-baked goods, old-fashioned roast chicken, or home-canned tomato sauce can make us a bit guilty for not spending the requisite time in the kitchen. So it's good to remind ourselves of some…
The other day I got a serious problem in the mail. I was briskly opening up boxes and bags of new fall cookbooks when--blam!--there it was, staring up at me with an evil expression. Twisted Cakes, it read, and beneath…
We have a sneaking suspicion that most of our members have a soft spot for the Pillsbury Bake Off contest. Certainly anyone who's ever made a bundt cake should be grateful to the 2nd place winner of the 1966 contest:…
Here are two helpful tips for the kitchen. First up, what to do when you have leftover avocado. Avocados are double trouble - they're expensive to start with, and then are problematic to store as they brown so easily.…
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has a new book just out Hugh's Three Good Things. Hugh's premise is that there are combinations of three ingredients that create culinary magic. And we will be indexing the book shortly so we…
About this time of year (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) gardens are beginning to show wear and tear. And that's especially sad for those who love just plucking fresh herbs when you need them - or buying them in…
Huff Post Food has an article titled, "'Fifty Shades of Grey'-Themed Cooking Class Has Us Cringing" that also left us a bit disconcerted. In particular, it was the part about the mother-daughter duos that attended this…
We know that our members share our fondness for food writing - after all, many of us love to read cookbooks as much as cook from them. So we thought these two articles from Dianne Jacob's blog, Will Write for Food,…
